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Method Matters : Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda
Cullen, Claire - 2020
This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and Rwanda. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions using one of three survey methods: an indirect method (list experiment) that gives respondents anonymity; a...
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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021
Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making
Marcelo, Darwin - 2017
Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
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Deals and Delays : Firm-Level Evidence on Corruption and Policy Implementation Times
Freund, Caroline L. - 2017
This paper examines whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation. The "grease the wheels" hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe...
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Can Political Empowerment Help Economic Empowerment? Women Leaders and Female Labor Force Participation in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation. In the context of mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians affects overall female labor force participation. These...
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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
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Do Politically Connected Firms Innovate, Contributing to Long-Term Economic Growth?
Francis, David - 2018
This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation activities. The analysis is based on novel establishment survey data from The Arab Republic of Egypt which provides information on establishments' political connections, their...
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …
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Preventing More"Missing Girls" : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference
Kumar, Sneha - 2018
In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go ?missing? because of the...
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Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania : A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey
Joseph, George - 2019
Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment compared with the reference population as per the World Health Organization standards....
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